Senior Software Engineer - Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM)
Abnormal Security3 months ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Drive the ISPM technical roadmap by translating product requirements into system designs, implementation phases, and build-versus-extend decisions.
- Architect, design, build, and scale identity security posture management systems.
- Develop high-performance Go backend services, including event-driven systems, REST/gRPC APIs, cron jobs, and integration layers.
- Build and maintain React/TypeScript interfaces for policy dashboards, identity visualization, and mitigation workflows.
- Design and optimize database schemas for large-scale, multi-tenant identity workloads.
- Implement Kafka-based event-driven architectures for asynchronous workflows and continuous identity posture evaluation.
- Maintain service reliability and health through runbooks, feature flags, monitoring, on-call participation, incident response, and SLO management.
- Author and review technical designs, facilitate architecture discussions, and uphold engineering standards for testing, code quality, API design, and observability.
- Mentor and guide a distributed team of 3–4 engineers across India and Singapore.
- Collaborate with Product Managers and engineering leadership on strategy, prioritization, quarterly results, milestones, and client interactions.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of software development experience, including at least 2 years in a tech lead or senior technical leadership role.
- Proven experience mentoring engineers and raising team-wide technical standards.
- Strong system architecture experience designing and operating scalable, multi-tenant, event-driven distributed systems.
- Deep hands-on experience with Kafka or comparable high-throughput event-streaming technologies.
- Extensive production experience with Go, including idiomatic services, clean design patterns, testing, and error handling.
- Production-level React and TypeScript experience owning user-facing features end-to-end.
- Strong SQL and PostgreSQL proficiency, including schema design, query optimization, and data modeling for multi-tenant workloads.
- Excellent communication skills for explaining technical trade-offs, presenting architecture, and writing design documents.
- Ability to operate effectively amid ambiguity and make decisions with incomplete data.
- Experience in identity security, IAM, security posture management, or cybersecurity products is preferred.
- Experience with gRPC/Protobuf API design is preferred.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted software development workflows and tools is preferred.
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About Abnormal Security
Abnormal Security builds an AI-based cloud email and SaaS security platform for enterprises, preventing phishing, business email compromise, and account takeover. Its products integrate natively with Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and other business apps, delivered as a subscription service. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada, the privately held company focuses on securing large organizations’ email and connected applications.